Dear Colleague:
I would like to draw your attention to the post below and ask you to bring
it to the attention of any excellent candidates.
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The Adaptive Multimodal Interface Research Lab at University of Trento
(Italy)
has openings in the following areas:
HCI/User Interface (Research Scientist)
Multimodal/Spoken Dialog (Research Scientist)
The Adaptive Multimodal Interface research lab pursues excellence research
in
next-generation interfaces for human-machine and human-human communication.
The research positions will be funded by the prestigious Marie Curie
Excellence grant
awarded by the European Commission for cutting edge and interdisciplinary
research.
There have been many advances in the field speech recognition and
text-to-speech synthesis
in the last decade. However, human-machine conversational system are still
severely
limited in the ability to understand and interact. The research challenge
of the
project is to investigate innovative multimodal interfaces that will be
adaptive,
affective, usable and knowledgeable.
The AMI lab has a state-of-the-art technology infrastructure and
collaborations with
premiere international research centers and industry research labs.
The candidates should have a PhD degree either in computer science,
cognitive science
or related disciplines. They will have an established international
research track
record in their field of expertise and leadership skills. Deadline for
application
submission is November 1, 2006.
The applicants should be fluent in English. The Italian language competence
is optional
and applicants are encouraged to acquire this skill on the job. The
applicants should have
good programming skills in most of the following
C++/Java/JavaScript/Perl/Python. Positions
are funded from a minimum of two to four years. Salaries are competitive
and depending on
qualifications. Relocation package might be available depending on
eligibility.
University of Trento is an equal opportunity employer. Interested applicants
should send
their CV along with their statement of research interest and three reference
letters to:
Prof. Ing. Giuseppe
Riccardi
Email:
riccardi@dit.unitn.it
http://www.dit.unitn.it/~riccardi
About University of Trento and Information and Communication Technology
Department
The University of Trento is constantly ranked as premiere Italian graduate
university institution
(see www.dit.unitn.it).
About DIT Department
DIT has a strong focus on interdisciplinarity with professors from
different faculties of the
University (Physical Science, Electrical Engineering, Economics,
Social Science, Cognitive Science,
Computer Science) with international background.
DIT aims at exploiting the complementary experiences present in the various
research areas in order
to develop innovative methods and technologies, applications and
advanced services.
English is the official language.
--Prof. Ing. Giuseppe Riccardi
Department of Information and Communication Technology
University of Trento
Room D11, via Sommarive 14
38050 Povo di Trento, Italy
tel : +39-0461 882087
+39-0461 883994
email: riccardi@dit.unitn.it
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